Prior research with both community and clinical samples has documented that rates of depression are significantly higher in children with ADHD than in other children. This is concerning because children with ADHD and depression, in addition to experiencing greater distress in the present are likely to have greater difficulty over the course of their development. [...]
By Douglas Fuchs, Caresa L. Young of Peabody College of Vanderbilt University Exceptional Children Vol. 73, No. l,pp. 8-30. ©2006, Council for Exceptional Children Abstract: There is increasingly negative sentiment against IQ-achievement discrepancy as a method to identify children with learning disabilities (LD) an4. more broadly, intelligence as an explanation of poor academic performance. The [...]
By Laura Devaney, Associate Editor, eSchool News – January 31, 2007 Research project uses handheld computers to teach kids math and literacy skills Researchers at Harvard, MIT, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison have developed a project that uses “augmented reality” to teach students math and literacy skills. The project involves teams of students [...]
By Daniel T. Willingham Winter 2006/07 American Federation Of Teachers Question: In a recent column* you said that background knowledge is essential for reading comprehension. What about reading comprehension strategies? Isn’t it important to teach children comprehension strategies to help them get everything out of what they read? The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading [...]
Daily Mail, January 30, 2007 Scientists have located a ‘bottleneck in the brain’ that may explain why we find it hard to do two things at once. Why Our Brains Suffer a Log-jam
By Louisa Cook Moats- 1/29/2007 If you thought whole-language reading instruction had been relegated to the scrap heap of history, think again. Many such programs (proven to be ineffective) are still around, but they’re hiding behind phrases like ”balanced literacy” in order to win contracts from school districts and avoid public scrutiny. Louisa Moats calls them out in Fordham’s new report, Whole-Language High Jinks. Whole [...]
By Louisa Cook Moats – 10/1/2000 Dr. Moats reveals that what’s going on in many classrooms in the name of “balance” or “consensus” is that the worst practices of whole language reading instruction persist, continuing to inflict boundless harm on young children who need to learn to read. How and why that is happening—and how [...]
Most people never consider the complexity and difficulty of the writing process. In fact, relative to all other academic activities, writing requires more basic skills than perhaps any other. Even during their earliest handwriting exercises, children must combine complex physical and cognitive processes to render letters precisely and fluidly. As writing tasks become more difficult, [...]
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The National Institutes of Health recently published a news release regarding an exciting breakthrough detecting changes in brain connectivity with behavioural treatment. The findings are leading to a new approach being tested in the treatment of mental disorders, which increasingly appear to be due to problems in specific brain circuits. Using a technology called diffusion tensor imaging, [...]